Motivational speaker Dennis Martinez
shares his life's experience to inmates and
speaks aboutchange, regaining their
lives and never going back!

Presentations on drug and alcohol
prevention given at schools, churches, service
clubs, city council meetings, etc. Sharing
life experiences and imparting hope.

Larry Johnson and Dennis Martinez
founded Training Center in 2005

XFEST is an extreme Christ centered
prison outreach which is made up skateboarding, BMX, Hip
Hop, Rock, Arm Wrestling, Celebrities and guest speakers.
The volunteers mixed with inmates = SALVATIONS!!!

OFF THE STREET (6 1/2 minute trailer
as there are a few shorter) - OFF THE STREET is a group of
ex-gang members, drug addicts, alcoholics and criminals who
have truly changed and have a mission to change the youth
from heading down that path of destruction.

LESSON 5 "Prison Life" - Prison
Life is our main focus. Training Center is committed to the
prisoner as the scripture says "remember the prisoners as if
chained with them" Hebrews 13:3

the richest man in the world

By the age of seventeen, Dennis
Martinez had achieved top honors as a skateboarding
World Championship. By eighteen, the drug he was
addicted to, cocaine, was wrecking his hard-won
skills. Within a year, one of the sport's most
promising talents had graduated to shooting
methamphetamine and continued for the next sixteen
years. He had gone from a fat wallet and
luxury cars to . . . Read
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Leaving a Lasting Legacy

During the birth of modern skateboarding, Dennis
Martinez was shredding and would not only help
revolutionize the sport, but he would cement
incredible success before he could legally by a
beer. Despite all his fame and fortune, Martinez
would fall victim to drug addiction. His story would
go from skate bowls and decks, to prison bars,
hospital beds, drug dens, . . .
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War on Drugs - A Losing Battle

After 40
years, the United States' war on drugs has cost $1
trillion and hundreds of thousands of lives, and for
what? Drug use is rampant and violence even more
brutal and widespread.

Serving California is committed to the possibility that we can build a community of empathy for those who are struggling and provide them with resources to transcend their situations. We support a network of exceptional partner organizations by providing funding and other management resources to assist them in creating and expanding high quality, solution-based, transformational programs. [+]